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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
The right to refuse unsafe work is law under Section 35 of the OH&S Act, it's not just a union rule. If you feel that you are being asked to perform unsafe work, you don't tell your supervision and then keep doing the work. You stop working and tell your supervisor. At that point, they have to investigate and eliminate the danger. So stopping the train in a safe location and calling dispatch is the correct thing to do.
There are also criminal charges that come into play if they tell him to keep going and an accident happens.
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Yup. And it's not even just a right to refuse unsafe work anymore, it's an obligation to refuse. If there was an accident and the driver said he knew it was unsafe then did it anyway, there could be criminal charges against him personally not just CT.
That article really did a poor job of saying what happened. This global one is better. Like Cuz said above, he didn't walk off, he just stopped and waited for a supervisor
http://globalnews.ca/news/3074106/ct...al-to-proceed/
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“He came over the speaker and said that just due to the fact that he had been scheduled for over 12 hours that day, he would no longer be going any further until someone came along to relieve him of his duty,” passenger Nikki Warnock said.
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Rick Ratcliff with the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 538 said the driver contacted them Thursday morning.
“The member had some safety concerns because he had been, ultimately, at work for 12 hours, which is basically the limit of any shift at Calgary Transit.”
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